"The father of the Big Bang."
February 8, 2023 6:54 AM   Subscribe

"The only known video interview with Belgian physicist Georges Lemaître, widely considered the "father of the Big Bang," talking about the birth of the universe has been rediscovered almost 60 years after it was lost."

"[...] Lemaître was also the first to derive Hubble's law, which states that galaxies are moving away from Earth at speeds proportional to their distance, even though Hubble received all the credit at the time. (The International Astronomical Union renamed the idea the Hubble-Lemaître law in 2018.) In 1931, Lemaître proposed his "hypothesis of the primeval atom" to account for the universe's expansion, which stated that the universe began from a single point, and later inspired what we now know as the Big Bang theory."
posted by mhoye (3 comments total) 11 users marked this as a favorite
 
Fun fact, The Vatican operates an observatory in Arizona.
posted by jquinby at 8:36 AM on February 8, 2023


On last night's University Challenge [UCL v NCL], Lemaître had hat-tip in a Big Bang question about George Gamow.
posted by BobTheScientist at 9:31 AM on February 8, 2023


English translation of the interview.
posted by metaplectic at 7:12 PM on February 8, 2023 [1 favorite]


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